Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk. [PDF]
, 2020 Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to global health.
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Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades [PDF]
, 2017 Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is essential for nonshivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue and is widely accepted to have played a key thermoregulatory role in small-bodied and neonatal placental mammals that enabled the exploitation ...
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A new Oligocene site with terrestrial mammals and a selachian fauna from Minqar Tibaghbagh, the western Desert of Egypt [PDF]
, 2017 A new fossil site at Minqar Tibaghbagh, east of Siwa, in the Egyptian Western Desert is described. This represents the first place in Egypt outside the Fayum Depression yielding Paleogene, terrestrial mammals.
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2012 We report the findings of two proboscideans from a sedimentary intercalation within the Central Eritrea Tertiary Trap basalt succession. These intertrappean sediments can be traced continuously between Tera’emni and Adi Quala in the Mendefera region, and
ERNESTO ABBATE +7 more
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Chaetognatha of the Caribbean Sea and adjacent areas [PDF]
, 1984 This illustrated manual is a guide to the distribution and identification of the 6 genera and 28 species of benthic and planktonic Chaetognatha known to occur in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexlco, the Florida Straits, and the southwestern North ...
Michel, Harding B.
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Dental functional morphology predicts the scaling of chewing rate in mammals [PDF]
, 2018 How food intake and mastication scale to satisfy the metabolic needs of mammals has been the subject of considerable scientific debate. Existing theory suggests that the negative allometric scaling of metabolic rate with body mass is compensated by a ...
Fortelius, Mikael, Zliobaite, Indre
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Egg clutch structure of Rhinella rumbolli (Anura: Bufonidae), a toad from the Yungas of Argentina, with a review of the reproductive diversity in Rhinella [PDF]
, 2015 Rhinella rumbolli is a poorly known, medium-sized toad endemic to the Yungas of Argentina. Recent fieldwork allowed observing its peculiar oviposition mode, which is described in this paper.
Baldo, Juan Diego +3 more
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General Information on Elephants with Emphasis on Tusks [PDF]
, 1978 A brief encyclopedic entry on elephants in ...
Shoshani, Jehskel
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Further revision of the fossil Elephantidae of Southern Africa [PDF]
, 1961 NoneThe South African fossil Metarchidiskodon griqua is regarded as indeterminable and hence as a nomen vanum; the generic name thus also falls away. A new method for representing graphically the main dimensional features of elephant molar teeth is ...
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Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide [PDF]
, 2014 Ecological trait data are essential for understanding the broad-scale distribution of biodiversity and its response to global change. For animals, diet represents a fundamental aspect of species’ evolutionary adaptations, ecological and functional roles,
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